Rushing, complex acoustic guitar and punctuating harmonies come together to create the sprawling cacophony of Sham’s newest release, Machine Simple. The process of making the album was highly influenced by the changing of the seasons and living spaces in lead member Shane Justice McCord’s life. As the instrumentation winds down on album opener “Day Yawns Under Fat Cloud,” he sets the tone for this, singing “I have become the librarian of my own experience.” McCord and his band are taking the album on tour now, including a show at Bolo Bolo presented by Athens’ own show promotion and tape label, Attaboy Tapes. The show will be opened by John Kiran Fernandes and Arianna Peterson on clarinet and cello, psych-pop artist Jake Brower backed by a full band, and Terry’s Dolmen, a project by Graham Ulicny of Reptar and Thick Paint.
WHO: Sham, John Fernandes & Arianna Peterson, Jake Brower, Terry’s Dolmen
WHEN: Friday, Feb. 23, 8 p.m.
WHERE: Bolo Bolo
HOW MUCH: $10
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